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April 19, 2021<\/em> \u2013 Hooray! We’ve made it to my first official ethical fashion post. It’s a big deal, mostly to me, because I have procrastinating hard<\/strong> on creating this content. Not because I didn’t want to, not because I didn’t have the means to, just because I felt so overwhelmed with all of my ideas. Does that happen to anyone else? You have this full vision for what you want things to look like and you spend two hours trying to figure out how to make the photos on your site portrait-style instead of landscape…and then you give up and don’t look at things for three months. No? Just me? Alright, that’s fair. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, we’re here and it’s real and I am so <\/em>excited to share this post because it features an ethical fashion brand that I have been following for years: <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Manos del Uruguay<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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I first interacted with them at an absolute dream event, TED Women 2016, in San Francisco. If you scroll back far enough on my Instagram<\/a>, you’ll see a cute staged photo of me with the TED sign where I was straight cheesin’. What 23-year-old gets to go to TED for free?! A very privileged one, obviously! I mean, I was there to work as a vendor for their artisan marketplace, but still. The idea was to have a marketplace where people could shop all artisan-focused, ethically-made products. Part of the curated group of brands (by the Artisan Alliance<\/a>, if you’re ever curious about resources for artisan brands) was Manos del Uruguay.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

And oh my word was their booth plush! Their products are made in Uruguay by artisan women in rural areas, who are paid fair wages for their work. Their most well-known product is probably their wool yarn, which is all handmade and hand-dyed. They also make apparel and accessories, like scarves, hats, sweaters, and what I’m wearing here…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Poncho <\/h2>\n\n\n\n